American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Thought and Culture at the University of Leicester. His recent books include The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (2022) and Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020 (2025). Catherine Morley is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Literature (2009) and co-editor of American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century (2008) and American Modernism: Cultural Transactions (2009).

• Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; Introduction: The Next American Century?, Martin Halliwell and Catherine Morley; Part 1: Politics; 1. American Politics in the 1990s and 2000s, Dominic Sandbrook (Rothmere American Institute, Oxford); 2. American Leadership into the New Century, John Dumbrell (Durham University); 3. 9/11 and US Foreign Policy, David Ryan (University College Cork); 4. Three Variations on Liberalism, Peter Kuryla (Vanderbilt University); 5. The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism, Kevin Mattson (Ohio University); 6. US Propaganda, Nancy Snow (University of Southern California); Part 2: Society; 7. Contemporary Social Criticism, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Syracuse University); 8. Religion in Post-Secular America, Wilfred M. McClay (University of Tennessee); 9. The US and Globalization, Howard Brick (Washington University, St Louis); 10. The Future of Medicine, Christopher Thomas Scott (Stanford University); 11. Technology in the 21st Century, Carroll Pursell (Macquarie University, Australia); 12. America and the Environment, John Wills (University of Kent, Canterbury); Part 3: Culture; 13. Contemporary American Culture, Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester); 14. Cultural Pluralism and National Identity, Rebecca Tillett (University of East Anglia); 15. Writing in the Wake of 9/11, Catherine Morley (Oxford Brookes University); 16. American Ways of Seeing, Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin); 17. Television and Digital Media, Lynn Spigel and Max Dawson (Northwestern University); 18. Animation and Digital Culture, Paul Wells (Loughborough University); Bibliography; Index.